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Thoughts on the present state of the fine arts in Great Britain: with suggestions for their advancement. Intended as an appendix to the fourth volume of the "Library of the Fine Arts."
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KENNEDY, J., M.P
Thoughts on the present state of the fine arts in Great Britain: with suggestions for their advancement. Intended as an appendix to the fourth volume of the "Library of the Fine Arts."
London (Place), published by M. Arnold,, 1833
29, [3] p., engr. frontis. port. ; 21.9 cm. (8°)
Anonymous. The author is identified as 'J. Kennedy, M.P.' in an advertisement printed on the verso of the front wrapper of the June 1833 issue of Arnold's Magazine of the Fine Arts (see copy bound in PC 14.(5), q.v.). There the date of publication is set for 15th June and the price of the pamphlet put at 2s. 6d. The frontispiece portrait is of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam (the founder of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge) engraved by Edward Scriven after a painting by Henry Howard RA. The final leaf is blank. Issued and bound with volume IV of the Library of the Fine Arts, 1832 (q.v.) as here, but no doubt also available independently to non-subscribers.
Copy Notes Bound with vol. IV of the Library of the Fine Arts (1832, q.v.).
Binding C19th green moiré cloth, black roan spine-label lettered in gilt 'The/ Library/ Of The/ Fine Arts/ Vol. IV/ 1832.'.
Reference Number 2542
Thoughts on the present state of the fine arts in Great Britain: with suggestions for their advancement. Intended as an appendix to the fourth volume of the "Library of the Fine Arts."
London (Place), published by M. Arnold,, 1833
29, [3] p., engr. frontis. port. ; 21.9 cm. (8°)
Anonymous. The author is identified as 'J. Kennedy, M.P.' in an advertisement printed on the verso of the front wrapper of the June 1833 issue of Arnold's Magazine of the Fine Arts (see copy bound in PC 14.(5), q.v.). There the date of publication is set for 15th June and the price of the pamphlet put at 2s. 6d. The frontispiece portrait is of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam (the founder of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge) engraved by Edward Scriven after a painting by Henry Howard RA. The final leaf is blank. Issued and bound with volume IV of the Library of the Fine Arts, 1832 (q.v.) as here, but no doubt also available independently to non-subscribers.
Copy Notes Bound with vol. IV of the Library of the Fine Arts (1832, q.v.).
Binding C19th green moiré cloth, black roan spine-label lettered in gilt 'The/ Library/ Of The/ Fine Arts/ Vol. IV/ 1832.'.
Reference Number 2542